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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Benjamin Cardozo

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality

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